Sprout Pi Mainboard: I think this is such a cool way to repair and upgrade even very old iPods.

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• inari@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sprout replaces the whole logic board and runs new software, written from scratch to behave like the original.

  Sad that it’s not Rockbox: https://www.rockbox.org/

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  • turbowafflz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m not sure why you would want this over just installing rockbox on the stock hardware?

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    • scrion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because it improves over the standard hardware. Bluetooth, WiFi, USB vs. Firewire only in some cases.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      what if your hardware dies

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• nullPointer@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  hoping for the same for the creative zen.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been blocked from crowdsupply. 😞

  But this was cool. youtu.be/xwB0ohq2xYk

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